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Mindovermaster 1,954

A lot of you probably use different cloud services for different reasons.

I need to backup my important files, pictures, documents, some movies (that I don't have backups on but was ripped), etc.

I know of one host that has been good to me over the years. MediaFire. I have currently 21GB out of 51GB (for free version) About 99% of that is old minecraft server saves. For each version. And I give it to people in our group to do whatever they want with it. For memories.

Now, I am looking at their pro plan for 1TB storage, and it's $3.75/Month (50% off), paid anually, so $45/Year. (I doubt that will stay the same, but..)

This is about the best deal I can find online. I never had a problem with them either. I mean, I had a corruption on a update once, but that was because we lost power to the house...

Is MediaFire a good company, or should I look elsewhere? Price doesn't really matter. Let's say $100/Year MAX. Just the best $/TB, and the best security.

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+BudMan 3,513

Glacier is for long term archive/backup - backblaze b2 is more of amazon S3 sort of storage.

Im killing my backblaze b2 bucket soon, it has a hard time uploading large files. The synology app atleast.. And I don't have desire to dick with it.. Looking over my what I thought was backed up on backblaze b2 shows 41 large files not backed up. I might switch over to the computer $60 a year version and just backup my critical media with the desktop client..

I have my critical media (home movies and pictures) on multiple cloud services. And also on multiple disks in different systems in my home. Along with optical media (mdisc - 1000 year media) over at my son's place. And normal bluray at my place, and a copy on my webhost via nextcloud.

You can never have enough copies/backups of irreplaceable media/files. Even that novel your writing could be redone. But you can never get back your granddaughters first ballet recital, or the play at school, etc.

I was using crashplan as well, when they switched there was 1 year discount that made it same price as their home version.. But that runs out soon.. So need to find alternative to go along with my glacier backup.

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DevTech 1,517

Everything in life is ideally driven by "suitability to requirements" which applies to storage, hardware, and managing Planet Earth. (Unfortunately 1% of the population is so overwhelmed by pure evil greed that they would not even understand that concept)

B2 has a comprehensive programming API which makes it comparable to S3 and Azure.